NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday it was “important to get all the facts straight” about what led to the explosions in Poland that killed two people.
On Twitter, Stoltenberg reveals that he spoke to Polish President Andrzej Duda about what happened. “I offered my condolences for the loss of life. NATO is monitoring the situation and the allies are in close consultation. It is important to clarify all the facts, ”he indicated.
The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, confessed that she was “alarmed” by “reports of an explosion” in Poland. A senior US intelligence official said Russian missiles landed on the NATO member country.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki urgently summoned the Polish National Security Commission following these reports, but the government spokesman urged the media not to publish “unconfirmed information”.
In reaction, the Russian Defense Ministry said today that reports of Russian missile launches in Poland are “a deliberate provocation to escalate the situation”, denying responsibility for the attack.
In a statement, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation added that the remains in the photographs published by various Western media “have nothing to do with Russian means of destruction.”
According to Polish media, two people died this afternoon after a shell hit an agricultural area in Przewodów, a Polish town near the border with Ukraine.
The police and the army are already present in the place, according to the media, which also reported that the firefighters confirmed the occurrence of explosions in that place, reported the Efe agency.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia today fired “about” 100 missiles at electricity production infrastructure in several Ukrainian regions, causing power outages, in addition to also hitting residential areas and killing at least one person in the Ukrainian capital. , kyiv.
Source: TSF